What does Xiaonianye mean? What are the customs and traditions of Xiaonian?

What does Xiaonianye mean? What are the customs and traditions of Xiaonian?
Xiaonianye is one of the traditional festivals, but not everyone knows what Xiaonianye means. So, let’s take a look at what Xiaonianye means. What are the customs and traditions of Xiaonian? The twelfth month of the lunar calendar is also known as the twelfth month, the strict month, the last month of winter, etc. If you want to know more about the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2021, please follow Mr. Shui Mo’s website!

What does Xiaonianye mean?

The night of the Little New Year's Festival is called Little New Year's Eve.
Xiaonian, a traditional Chinese festival, is the traditional day for worshiping the kitchen god. The main folk activities during the Little New Year include sweeping the house and offering sacrifices to the kitchen god. The Kitchen God worship has a history of thousands of years in our country. The belief in the Kitchen God reflects the Chinese people's pursuit of the dream of "enough food and clothing". The Little New Year is usually regarded as the beginning of the busy year, which means that people begin to prepare New Year's goods, sweep the house, worship the kitchen god, etc., preparing to have a good new year in a clean manner. It expresses people's good wishes to bid farewell to the old and usher in the new, and to welcome good luck and fortune.

What are the customs and traditions of Xiaonian?

Hemp Candy
Ma candy is a very typical food for the Little New Year. There is a saying in Northwest Shanxi that goes "eat ma candy on the 23rd, and if you can't eat it, bite your fingers." It is said that Little New Year is the day when the Kitchen God goes to heaven to report to the Emperor of Heaven about the people's food, clothing and living expenses in the past year and other things the Emperor of Heaven wants to know. The reason for eating sesame candy is to make the Kitchen God's mouth sticky with candy so that he cannot report the delicious and luxurious scenes of the world to heaven, lest people who love to eat and drink be punished - the New Year brings famine, and people hope for a peaceful and plentiful year to come, free from natural disasters.
Rice Cake
The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is commonly known as "Little New Year". People in Wuxuan, Guiping and other places in Guangxi have the custom of making rice cakes. Rice cakes are made of glutinous rice flour as the main ingredient, with peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar as side ingredients. They are put into molds and formed into round shapes, then steamed at high temperature. They have a unique flavor, are delicious and have profound meaning.

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